Anarchist Convergence and Free Skool Conference Workshops off the hook

You brilliant, beautiful, sneaky people submitted over forty proposals for workshops, panels, and open thread spaces to address issues of community inter-relatedness, the Green Scare, security culture, the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act, DIY infrastructure, applied anarchisms, and resistance. The FreeSkool Conference, happening simultaneously and open to everyone, will explore starting and running freeskools, deconstructing public education, freeskools and anarchism, and more philosophical and practical discussion on skill-sharing networks and challenging institutional control of learning. Workshops have been scheduled between 10 am and 6 pm on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, and the schedule of workshops will be posted here in the next week: http://santacruzanarchist.org

More about events, art, performance, venues, book fair, and more at the website.

Workshop times, locations, and presenters can be found here. Printed programs with this info, plus workshop descriptions, stuff to help you get around Santa Cruz, and other handy info, will be available at SubRosa beginning Thursday, May 7.
Here is the final list of workshops, including days, times, locations, and presenters, representing the five workshop tracks: Community-Inter-relatedness, Green Scare, Security Culture and the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act, DIY Infrastructure, Applied Anarchisms, and Resistance!

Friday

Day

Time

Session Title

Presenter

Track

Location

Fri

10am

Free Skool for Kids

Panel

Free Skool

Bike Church

Fri

10am

Cuba's Current Political Situation

Raquel

Other

Computer Kitchen

Fri

10am

Know Your Rights and Resist the Police State

Wes and Jason

Security

SubRosa Courtyard

Fri

12pm

Low-down on Grand Juries

Ben Rosenfeld

Security

Bike Church

Fri

12pm

destroying patriarchy from within

Maus!

Inter-relatedness

Computer Kitchen

Fri

12pm

Self Defense workshop with GIRL ARMY

Daniel

resistance

Louden Nelson Park

Fri

2pm

Nonviolent Communication (NVC) And Anarchism: Potential and Pitfalls

Dan Young

Inter-relatedness

Computer Kitchen

Fri

2pm

Practical Organizing to Overthrow the US Government and Global Capitalism

David Solnit and Sampada Aranke

Resistance

SubRosa Courtyard

Fri

4pm

Responding to Intimate Violence:beyond rules

Leona

Inter-relatedness

Computer Kitchen

Fri

4pm

The Current Crisis and the Coming Insurrection

Maus!

Resistance

SubRosa Courtyard

Saturday

Day

Time

Session Title

Presenter

Track

Location

Sat

!2pm

Challenging the Popular Wisdom: Deconstructing Public Education

Soneile Hymn

Free Skool

People Power!

Sat

10am

Resisting 2010: A presentation and discussion about the ongoing struggle against the Vancouver Winter Olympics

Marianne, Zac, and Janick

Resistance

Bike Church

Sat

10am

DIY Radio Broadcasting with Freak Radio Santa Cruz

Daniel

Infrastructure

Computer Kitchen

Sat

10am

Harm Reduction: Meet Me Where You're At

Crystal Haviland

Inter-relatedness

Ped-Ex

Sat

10am

Free Skool Mutual Support Networks

Panel

Free Skool

People Power!

Sat

12pm

The Audacity of Hopelessness

Aragorn!

Anarchisms

Bike Church

Sat

12pm

Making Families Panel

Panel

Inter-relatedness

Computer Kitchen

Sat

12pm

Surviving Trauma

Ashley McNamara

Inter-relatedness

Ped-Ex

Sat

2pm

Can we Still Turn the World Upside Down? Lessons from 1649

Lewis "Lew" Finzel

Anarchisms

Computer Kitchen

Sat

2pm

Black Mesa Resistance

Maus!

Resistance

Louden Nelson Park

Sat

2pm

CONSENT and Intimate/Sexual Violence

CLIT Collective

Inter-relatedness

People Power!

Sat

2pm

Green Scare, Security Culture and the AETA Open Discussion

Panel

Security

Ped-Ex

Sat

4pm

Free Skools & Anarchism

Panel

Free Skool

Computer Kitchen

Sat

4pm

Resistance Open Discussion

Panel

Resistance

Louden Nelson Park

Sat

4pm

Building an Autonomous Infrastructure: Strategy and Challenges

Ian

Infrastructure

Ped Ex

Sat

4pm

Anarchism and solidarity

Andrej Grubacic

Anarchisms

People Power!

Sat

4pm

Blue Anarchy for Beginners

Anarchist Yacht Club

Other

Sunday

Day

Time

Session Title

Presenter

Track

Location

Sun

10am

Tree Climbing Training

Gambit

Resistance

Harvey West Park

Sun

10am

Starting and Running a FreeSkool

Panel

Free Skool

Ped-Ex

Sun

10am

Anarchist Infrastructure and the Surveillance Society: Moving from Paranoia to Security

Elijah Saxon

Security

Computer Kitchen

Sun

12pm

Digital Security Culture

Flatline

Security

Computer Kitchen

Sun

12pm

Infoshop Panel

Panel

Infrastructure

Louden Nelson Park

Sun

12pm

The Oakland Rebellions

Billy No Good

Resistance

Ped Ex

Sun

2pm

Anarchism, Resistance, and Anarchy

Barry Pateman

Resistance

Bike Church

Sun

2pm

Digital Security Culture: Hands on

Flatline

Security

Computer Kitchen

Sun

2pm

Direct Action Training

Kim Marks

Resistance

Louden Nelson Park

Sun

2pm

Confronting Whiteness, Acknowledging Racism: Walking the Talk

Daniel

Inter-relatedness

Ped-Ex

Sun

4pm

Applied Anarchisms Open Discussion

Panel

Anarchisms

Bike Church

Sun

4pm

Presenting Tapatio: A framework for communications during mass actions